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Cherokee: format string vulnerability

Package(s):cherokee CVE #(s):
Created:November 1, 2004 Updated:November 3, 2004
Description: Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a format string vulnerability in the cherokee_logger_ncsa_write_string() function. Using a specially crafted URL when authenticating via auth_pam, a malicious user may be able to crash the server or execute arbitrary code on the target machine with permissions of the user running Cherokee.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200411-02 2004-11-01
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